Wednesday 24 May 2017

2016 International Dublin Literary Award

Winner
Family Life by Akhil Sharma

Shortlist
Outlaws by Javier Cercas
Academy Street by Mary Costello
Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? by Dave Eggers
The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
Diary of the Fall by Michel Laub
Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
Lila by Marilynne Robinson

Longlist
The King by Kader Abdolah
The Michelangelo Code by Nazehran Jose Ahmad
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
Song of the Shank by Jeffery Renard Allen
The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis
Cairo by Louis Armand
The Incarnations by Susan Barker
The Temporary Gentleman by Sebastian Barry
A Fairy Tale by Jonas T Bengtsson
Above the East China Sea by Sarah Bird
The Strays by Emily Bitto
Life Drawing by Robin Black
Rapids by Patrick Boltshauser
Texas: The Great Theft by Carmen Boullosa
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
Ghost Moon by Ron Butlin
Bonita Avenue by Peter Buwalda
Confessions by Jaume Cabré
Gutenberg’s Apprentice by Alix Christie
Prayers for the Stolen by Jennifer Clement
Adultery by Paulo Coelho
Tales of the Metric System by Imraan Coovadia
Sweetland by Michael Crummey
The Snow Queen by Michael Cunningham
Outline by Rachel Cusk
Lost & Found by Brooke Davis
News from Berlin by Otto de Kat
Tiger Milk by Stefanie de Velasco
The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair by Joël Dicker
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The Avenue of the Giants by Marc Dugain
1914 by Jean Echenoz
Kamal Jann by Dominique Eddé
On Earth As It Is In Heaven by Davide Enia
The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
The Barefoot Queen by Ildefonso Falcones
I Called Him Necktie by Milena Michiko Flašar
The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith
Blood-Drenched Beard by Daniel Galera
Who is Martha? by Marjana Gaponenko
The Great War by Aleksandar Gatalica
The Hilltop by Assaf Gavron
An Untamed State by Roxane Gay
Live Bait by Fabio Genovesi
What Came Before by Anna George
Tree of Sorrow by Malim Ghozali PK
Little Egypt by Lesley Glaister
Thai by Goran Gocić
All Russians Love Birch Trees by Olga Grjasnowa
Falling Out of Time by David Grossman
In the Light of What we Know by Zia Haider Rahman
The Hollow Ground by Natalie S Harnett
Golden Boys by Sonya Hartnett
A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain by Adrianne Harun
The Amber Fury by Natalie Haynes
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey
This Should Be Written in the Present Tense by Helle Helle
Last Bus to Coffeeville by J Paul Henderson
Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson
The Claimant by Janette Turner Hospital
The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt
The Scribe by Sobani Iddamalgoda
Song for an Approaching Storm by Peter Fröberg Idling
Natchez Burning by Greg Iles
The Dead Lake by Hamid Ismailov
Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta
The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson
Fallout by Sadie Jones
The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce
F by Daniel Kehlmann
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
Euphoria by Lily King
The Back of the Turtle by Thomas King
Summer House with Swimming Pool by Herman Koch
The Eye of the Sheep by Sofie Laguna
The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami
Uncle Brother by Barbara Lalla
The Texture of Shadows by Mandla Langa
On Such a Full Sea by Chang-rae Lee
10:04 by Ben Lerner
The Golden Age by Joan London
The Undertaking by Audrey Magee
Placebo: The Beauty and Horror of Lies by Sead Mahmutefendić
Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings by Tina Makereti
Very Little Light by Vladan Matijevic
Of Things Gone Astray by Janina Matthewson
Limbo by Melania G Mazzucco
The Children Act by Ian McEwan
Cicada by Moira McKinnon
Rachel’s Blue by Zakes Mda
All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu
Us Conductors by Sean Michaels
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran
Invisible Beasts by Sharona Muir
The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
Here Come the Dogs by Omar Musa
The Luminous Heart of Jonah S. by Gina Barkhordar Nahai
Talking to Ourselves by Andrés Neuman
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
Us by David Nicholls
Unravelling Oliver by Liz Nugent
The Thrill of it All by Joseph O'Connor
The Girl Who Was Saturday Night by Heather O'Neill
Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
The Bees by Laline Paull
I Refuse by Per Petterson
Fives and Twenty-Fives by Michael Pitre
Orfeo by Richard Powers
The Bright Side of my Condition by Charlotte Randall
White Lama by Merab Ratishvili
See You Tomorrow by Tore Renberg
Severina by Rodrigo Rey Rosa
Last Night at the Blue Angel by Rebecca Rotert
The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss
Lock In by John Scalzi
The Giraffe’s Neck by Judith Schalansky
Nowhere People by Paulo Scott
Notes from Underground by Roger Scruton
Ten Women by Marcela Serrano
The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey by Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
The Heist by Daniel Silva
Some Luck by Jane Smiley
How to be Both by Ali Smith
I Loved You More by Tom Spanbauer
Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
All Days Are Night by Peter Stamm
Who By Fire by Fred Stenson
We Are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas
A Man Lies Dreaming by Lavie Tidhar
House of Purple Cedar by Tim Tingle
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
Nora Webster by Colm Toibin
Christ’s Entry into Brussels by Dimitri Verhulst
Look Who’s Back by Timur Vermes
Completion by Tim Walker
The Diary of Mary Travers by Eibhear Walshe
The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle by Kirsty Wark
Their Lips Talk of Mischief by Alan Warner
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
Will Starling by Ian Weir
Small Blessings by Martha Woodroof
Land of Love and Drowning by Tiphanie Yanique
Decompression by Juli Zeh
The Lobster Kings by Alexi Zentner
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
The Night Watchman by Richard Zimler

2015 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

Winner
Harvest by Jim Crace

Shortlist
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Horses of God by Mahi Binebine
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
K by Bernardo Kucinski
Brief Loves that Live Forever by Andrei Makine
TransAtlantic by Colum McCann
Someone by Alice McDermott

Longlist
Free City by João Almino
Let the Games Begin by Niccolò Ammaniti
As Flies to Whatless Boys by Robert Antoni
Kind of Kin by Rilla Askew
The Blind Man’s Garden by Nadeem Aslam
This Place by Amitabha Bagchi
The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure
A Blind Goddess by James R Benn
Reply to a Letter from Helga by Bergsveinn Birgisson
Omunkashyu by Dilshan Boange
The Parrots by Filippo Bologna
The Strangers’ Gallery by Paul Bowdring
The Herbalist by Niamh Boyce
The Orenda by Joseph Boyden
We Need New Names by Noviolet Bulawayo
Mr Darwin’s Gardener by Kristina Carlson
The Silence of the Wave by Gianrico Carofiglio
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
Return to Killybegs by Sorj Chalandon
Three Souls by Janie Chang
Expo 58 by Jonathan Coe
The Schooldays of Jesus by JM Coetzee
The Tuner of Silences by Mia Couto
The Only Happy Ending for a Love Story is an Accident by JP Cuenca
For Sure by France Daigle
Nothing Holds Back the Night by Delphine de Vigan
S. by Doug Dorst
The Guts by Roddy Doyle
The Circle by Dave Eggers
The Things We Never Said by Susan Elliot Wright
No One Writes Back by Jang Eun-jin
Percival Everett by Virgil Russell by Percival Everett
The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence
The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer
On The Gold Coast by Evald Flisar
The Hired Man by Aminatta Forna
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
Back to Back by Julia Franck
On Sal Mal Lane by Ru Freeman
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith
All Over Again by A-dZiko Simba Gegele
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Dark Heart of Florence by Michele Giuttari
Roman Elegy by Sabine Gruber
The Humans by Matt Haig
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid
Benediction by Kent Haruf
Before I Burn by Gaute Heivoll
Cold Courage by Pekka Hiltunen
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
The Abyssinian Cache by Kurt J Jaeger
Saving Mozart by Raphaël Jerusalmy
The Dark Road by Ma Jian
Perfect by Rachel Joyce
Under Budapest by Ailsa Kay
Fever by Mary Beth Keane
The Last Days of the National Costume by Anne Kennedy
Wedding Speech by Khaliza Khalid
The Infinite Air by Fiona Kidman
At Least We Can Apologize by Lee Ki-ho
The Bones of Paris by Laurie R King
Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
A Man in Love by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything by Daniela Krien
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Good House by Ann Leary
Tula – The Revolt by Jeroen Leinders
Naw Much of a Talker by Pedro Lenz
Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem
Crow Blue by Adriana Lisboa
Anatomy of a Girl Gang by Ashley Little
The Bookman’s Tale by Charlie Lovett
Mullumbimby by Melissa Lucashenko
The Disestablishment of Paradise by Phillip Mann
The Infatuations by Javier Marías
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
The Pieces We Keep by Kristina McMorris
The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud
The Son by Phillip Meyer
Coal Creek by Alex Miller
In the Night of Time by Antonio Munoz Molina
Brittle Star by Rod Val Moore
The Rising of Bella Casey by Mary Morrissy
Stolen by Rebecca Muddiman
The Banner of the Passing Clouds by Anthea Nicholson
Life Form by Amelie Nothomb
Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O'Farrell
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth L Ozeki
The Story of My Purity by Francesco Pacifico
The Collector of Lost Things by Jeremy Page
The Mussolini Canal by Antonio Pennacchi
Night Film by Marisha Pessl
The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
A Crack in the Wall by Claudia Pineiro
Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
Love Letters of the Angels of Death by Jennifer Quist
The Victoria System by Éric Reinhardt
Sparta by Roxana Robinson
In Times of Fading Light by Eugen Ruge
Paris by Edward Rutherfurd
The Thing About December by Donal Ryan
Orkney by Amy Sackville
Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi
The Light and the Dark by Mikhail Shishkin
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
Like It Happened Yesterday by Ravinder Singh
The Days of the Rainbow by Antonio Skarmeta
The Sorrow of Angels by Jón Kalman Stefánsson
Death of the Black-Haired Girl by Robert Stone
Voices from Chernobyl by Ingrid Storholmen
The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The Violent Century by Lavie Tidhar
John Solomon and the Fifth Island by Samuill Tiew
The Devil’s Workshop by Jachym Topol
Barracuda by Christos Tsiolkas
Plan D by Simon Urban
Betrayal by Adriaan Van Dis
Quesadillas by Juan Pablo Villalobos
Let Him Go by Larry Watson
Eyrie by Tim Winton
Cairo by Chris Womersley
The Maid’s Version by Daniel Woodrell
The Swan Book by Alexis Wright
The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara
Gloria by Kerry Young
Ways of Going Home by Alejandro Zambra

2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

Winner
The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vasquez

Shortlist
The Detour by Gerbrand Bakker
Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser
The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
Absolution by Patrick Flanery
A Death in the Family: My Struggle Book 1 by Karl Ove Knausgard
Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye
The Light of Amsterdam by David Park
The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan

Longlist
The Book of Emotions by João Almino
Waiting for the Monsoon by Threes Anna
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
No One Is Here Except All Of Us by Ramona Ausubel
Swimming to Elba by Silvia Avallone
Seven Terrors by Selvedin Avdić
The Voyage by Murray Bail
The Guilty One by Lisa Ballantyne
Emmaus by Alessandro Baricco
Toby’s Room by Pat Barker
In the Kingdom of Men by Kim Barnes
Alfa Romeo 1300 and Other Miracles by Fabio Bartolomei
The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman
Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron
The Woman Who Dived into the Heart of the World by Sabina Berman
Miss Fuller by April Bernard
Kaltenburg by Marcel Beyer
HHhH by Laurent Binet
The Sandcastle Girls by Christopher Bohjalian
Waiting for Sunrise by William Boyd
Lola Bensky by Lily Brett
Spilt Milk by Chico Buarque
The Literature Express by Lasha Bugadze
Léon and Louise by Alex Capus
The Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey
Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Brunt Carol Rifka
Land More Kind than Home by Wiley Cash
Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon
Gold by Chris Cleave
Finton Moon by Gerard Collins
The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin
The House I Loved by Tatiana de Rosnay
70% Acrylic 30% Wool by Viola Di Grado
A Partial History of Lost Causes by Jennifer duBois
A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
Sufficient Grace by Amy Espeseth
Eyes and Mist by Tariku Abas Etenesh
The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison
The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan
A Possible Life by Sebastian Faulks
The Intentions Book by Gigi Fenster
419 by Will Ferguson
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Canada by Richard Ford
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
Follow the Spinning Sun by Thomas Gonzales
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Green
Arcadia by Lauren Groff
The Big Music by Kirsty Gunn
Painter of Silence by Georgina Harding
Axolotl Roadkill by Helene Hegemann
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
The Elephant Keepers’ Children by Peter Hoeg
May We Be Forgiven by AM Homes
In One Person by John Irving
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
The Open World by Stephanie Johnson
A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar by Suzanne Joinson
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
The Illicit Happiness of Other People by Manu Joseph
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
The Vanishers by Heidi Julavits
The Murder of Halland by Pia Juul
The Cannon was Red Hot by Vladimir Kecmanović
The Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally
Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver
Lost Voices by Christopher Koch
The Dinner by Herman Koch
The Headmaster’s Wager by Vincent Lam
Sea Hearts / The Brides of Rollrock Island by Margo Lanagan
Capital by John Lanchester
Anna From Away by DR MacDonald
People Park by Pasha Malla
Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
A Blessed Snarl by Samuel Thomas Martin
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
The German Lottery by Miha Mazzini
In the Absence of Heroes by Anthony McCarten
Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
Railsea by China Miéville
Heft by Liz Moore
Home by Toni Morrison
The Hunger Angel by Herta Muller
Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera
Phantom by Jo Nesbø
Traveller of the Century by Andrés Neuman
Mudwoman by Joyce Carol Oates
Flying Leap by Ralf W Oliver
The Forrests by Emily Perkins
Em and the Big Hoom by Jerry Pinto
Persecution by Alessandro Piperno
Freeman by Leonard Pitts Jr
The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
True by Riikka Pulkkinen
Standing in Another Man's Grave by Ian Rankin
The Cove by Ron Rash
Above All Things by Tanis Rideout
Ignorance by Michèle Roberts
The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan
The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling
The Watch by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya
The Brothers by Asko Sahlberg
Dominion by CJ Sansom
Light Falling on Bamboo by Lawrence Scott
Umbrella by Will Self
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
Honour by Elif Shafak
The Perfect Landscape by Ragna Sigurdardottir
The Fallen Angel by Daniel Silva
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
NW by Zadie Smith
This Bright River by Patrick Somerville
The Purchase by Linda Spalding
Risk by CK Stead
The Light Between Oceans by ML Stedman
The Canvas by Benjamin Stein
A Matter of Life and Death or Something by Ben Stephenson
The Guard by Peter Terrin
Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil
The Lower River by Paul Theroux
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
Ru by Kim Thúy
Mateship with Birds by Carrie Tiffany
The Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin
The Beginner’s Goodbye by Anne Tyler
Night Dancer by Chika Unigwe
Dirt by David Vann
The Dream of the Celt by Mario Vargas Llosa
Dublinesque by Enrique Vila-Matas
Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
Mesmerized by Alissa Walser
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
Skagboys by Irvine Welsh
Jack Holmes and his Friend by Edmund White
Care of Wooden Floors by Will Wiles
An Available Man by Hilma Wolitzer
The Bellwether Revivals by Benjamin Wood
The Rent Collector by Camron Wright
The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Method by Juli Zeh